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That also looks like a great way of concealing your flatulence from the rest of the passengers on the Coach Trip

Nor did I. I'm going to have to stop thinking of him as Mark Commode from now on though. That's a reflection of my distaste for critics generally but not for MK personally by the way.

Mark on DB:

Great clips, ta. As a young man, my recurring nightmare was similar but in mine I was always stark naked. My orchestras were showing and I had a tiny mouth organ in my hands.

To be honest, I would have one but for the fact that he mentioned "honky tonk for chicken sh!t bingo". I didn't read any more paragraphs. I'd had all the laughs I was going to get right there. He seemed to be stating the bl33ding obvious but his attitude was of an elder man trying to oil up his next teen conquest. Dead creepy. TLDR.

Don't worry OP. I wont bring any naked flames into the room to add injury to the insult. Heeheehee. I don't get jazz either. You might have gathered. I have enjoyed a couple of jazzy meals where I was captive in the audience on the Sunday Lunch circuit but that is almost certainly a diluted presentation of popular standards. Beyond that, it goes right over my head. I have downloaded the Mingus clip for my personal education and I will watch it later. Thanks.

I'd like to point out that, to the best of my knowledge, it was not the lord who dropped the atom bomb.

That's a statement that definitely benefits from the spell check.

"a Texas honky tonk for Chicken-stinky poo Bingo," PS; Hahahahaha! That's a score for the profanity filter.

I'm guessing that there isn't much TAB in it. (Runs away from the smoking blue touchpaper)

That explains his Teddy Boy dress tendencies then. I only see him as a Film critic on early morning BBC News at the weekends but I will see him differently from now on. Cheers!

I can say with a fair degree of certainty that it isn't. If it had been made for me it would have a proper, old-fashioned kill switch and not just a pathetic standby button. It galls me that with modern kit, I have to wait for a bootup cycle AND I have to wait for the shutdown to be certain that some new fangled bit of tat has actually responded to the soft switch. With lots of these processor dependant devices it seems to be that the one time you think "oh it'll be off in a moment I'll leave it to shut down", you come back much later to find that the darned thing is hung in some sort of digital sulk and is heating up an empty room because it is in loopy land. With valve tech, you only had to wait for the warm up. You could walk away immediately upon switching the set off. Confounded flummery! What a bunch of technophobes we are all becoming, eh? Sod it. I am happy to retire to my bath chair and shout at squirrels whilst waving a stick vaguely in their direction.

I quite often do that even when I intend to watch one the day of broadcast. I take my time to get some tea and finish off whatever chores remain from the evening meal. Often it happens that I build in a ten minute lag that lets me leapfrog all of the commercials and finish watching at the start time for the next hour. The hard disk equipped decoder is a marvellous bit of kit.

It does. If they all went out and got bladdered instead they'd be commercial proof for the rest of the week on account of being skint now that Wonga has gone.

Quite but I am far too refined in my upbringing to mention it on a family friendly forum. Heeheehee - not

It's nice to know the pros do this as well. That's going to be a beaut!

Are you sure that they could? LB has a vast repertoire of guitar faces.

I won't listen to them willingly either. The mute button is used every time. BBC claim not to advertise yet they use advertising tactics to promote their own stuff. The promotions are just as disruptive as commercials. There are no winners.

Perhaps. No matter what the neck is like, my walking bassline always limps.

I seem to recall on one of the endurneck video clips that a thicker neck was, dare I say it, good for metal. Joking aside, it seems to suit the more technical players because of the flats on the back of the neck. Anyone looking for a Jazz neck will be disappointed. This bass will inspire a LOT of original thinking and some new ideas.

She's great. She puts some real grit into the mix.

A whole note up from standard bass tuning then. Does that fit better with your background in brass then?

Not a tip for the bar staff then? Hahahahahaha. Proof that weed makes you stoopid.

Cool. You are right about the DIY thing. I used to enjoy being able to avoid garage charges and c o c k ups. Doing my own maintenance was not an issue as a time served aircraft mechanic. Once ABS and software became commonplace I lost much of the interest that had kept me at it full time.

Pioneering stuff! Love it.